A Madness So Discreet Quotes

“It's a madness so discreet that it can walk the streets and be applauded in some circles, but it is madness nonetheless.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Sometimes the loveliest places harbor the worst monsters.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“You chose to stop acknowledging a world that has treated you foully. What’s saner than that?”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Dear child, do you even know all the rage that is inside you?”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Quite the opposite; my definition is too broad. I think we're all quite mad. Some of us are just more discreet about it.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Sometimes the actions of the sane make no sense.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“the insane are simply people who have chosen not to participate in the world in the same manner as the majority,”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“The dead know nothing, and the living have secrets.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Grace had learned long ago that the true horrors of this world were other people.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“So then the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merged to create the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which personally I think is rather a mouthful,' Adelaide said as she set down her wineglass.
'I'm sure others have much shorter terms,' the doctor said, sawing into his steak with more vigor than necessary.
'Such as?' Grace asked.
'There are plenty who just call us bitches, dear.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“These are your friends now, Grace Mae. A madman who eats cancer in the dark and another who searches for a different kind of killer, the kind who smiles at you in the light of day.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“But I've smelled you, smelledthe wrongness of all that's been done to you by hands familiar and those of strangers. You chose to stop acknowledging a world that has treated you foully. What's saner than that?”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Simply using the words sane and insane is a way for the population to draw a safe line through humanity, and then place themselves squarely on the side of the healthy.” Grace’s”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“They work their discreet types of madness on us, power and pain, and we hold to our truths in the darkness.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“When I say the things that don't make sense you answer me anyway. It's like having green in your shirt.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Grief is by nature the most violent of them all. The ancients tore their hair and rent their clothing to express it. Now we keep the dead body in our homes, shaking people’s hands as they pass by to view it and trying to stop ourselves from crying because it’s not socially acceptable. Tell me—which of these mourning practices is least sane?”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Emotions had welled close to the surface, and she thought her heart had never felt so full as it did standing next to the defiled grave of a whore while lunatics sang the national anthem.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“before and after the crime, not just during, in order”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“... but how can I find fault with your deeds when without them our paths would never have crossed? If you are mad then I owe my life to a madman, and he is no less dear to me for his actions. Truly evil people do exist, this I know, but I do not count you among them. Instead, I choose to see you as a good person who has done bad things, and who among us cannot be dubbed so?”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“He’s the sanest of us all.” “Why is that?” “Because he knows he’s insane.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“If it was darkness you feared I would turn to while in his employ, fear not. The darkness has long lived inside me, sown if not by nature then by nurture.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Am I to be a kept woman, then?
Not for what's between my legs but my ears? Here to hop to your beck and call when you need a plaything for your night's adventures, no less of a doll for your own purposes than our killer's victims are to him?”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“The fault does not lie with you. It never did. You are not a temptation but simply a target for another's back sin.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“And the rick stagger 'ome just the same as the poor.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Emotions were tearing you apart and they came out the only way they could. Grief is by nature the most violent of them al.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Their chalkboard had always consisted of black and white, but the reality was gray, and she struggled with the pain of learning it.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“But it gave me power, to feel nothing. Me, who was so powerless. And I reveled i it for a time-”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“The original meaning of the word asylum is, in fact, "protection." I hope you have found it to be so in your bright surroundings as I have found my own niche here in the dark.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet